We were rooting for Junior too but it was an exciting race and it’s fun to see this kid in victory lane.
Good finish but, on the whole, restrictor plate racing kind of blows.
At halfway I would have never believed Mark Martin would get ap 20 finish, let alone a top 10.
I’m a Gibbs Racing fan, but I was pulling for the kid. I’m ready for some new faces to win races.
This is a good story. I am glad it was a fresh face out there.
Ditto. Hated to see that flat tire force Jr into the pits and knew what was going to happen once that pack got restarted. Ya gotta be up front during a late race restart.
Kudos to the rookie ... great win.
This tandem racing is/was a bunch of cr@p.
Geez, just yesterday he was a teenager. He’s #5 in Nationwide series points and now has won The Greatest Race!
I’ve been an Earnhardt racing family fan forever, but this kid’s win was awesome.
WOW! But too bad it wasn’t a GIRL... *SMIRK*
(Just puttin’ a burr under the saddles of y’all, LOL!)
What I wouldn’t GIVE to have the cat-like reflexes I had at TWENTY!
I’d say give him the keys to the family car and a bottle of Jack Daniels after THAT run, LOL!
Good on him. :)
He was in the car doing the towing, rather than being towed, right?
The fact that a unknown kid without a ride for the rest of the year in a car fielded by a has been third rate organization won the race should prove once and for all that restrictor plate races are a crapshoot which doesn’t reward good drivers and good teams. And no, I’m not a junior fan.
At the start of the race, when they were talking about how Gordon liked teaming up with Trevor, my wife (a very casual fan) asked why he would pick such an experienced driver. I said Gordon must see something in him or Trevor is the only driver that would work with him (LOL!). Anyway, she started rooting for him. All night now I keep hearing, “see, told ya.”
I’m happy for the kid and didn’t think he had a prayer with one to go and him in the lead. That NEVER happens.
Took the wood brothers back to victory lane at Daytona for the first time since David pearson won in 1976.35 YEARS AGO!Ford won first second and third place.OUTSTANDING!
I had 3 of 4 doing great until smoke stunk it up. Trevor is a rising star and has proved he has the mental capacity and crowd pleasing humbleness to be an All-American. Congrats to the young man.
Is he the youngest to have ever won it?
Yay, some guy drives a car in circles ...fast.
Wow.
“Breaking News”?????
Bayne’s Victory Lane interview was great. It was easy to tell he was totally gobsmacked that he’d pulled it off, and it’s great to see a driver thanking God and thanking his crew and owners even before thanking the sponsors! This kid is like the anti-Kyle Busch.
Near the end of the interview the reporterette says something like “and the King is here to congratulate you” and the camera pulled back to a shot of Richard Petty in Victory Lane. You can faintly hear Bayne yell “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” when she said that. :)
And how fantastic is it to see that #21 back up front. I’ve always loved the Wood Brothers since the days of David Pearson (my second favorite driver as a kid, behind Petty). It’s great to see the pride of Stuart, Virginia #1 at Daytona for the first time in 35 years.
}:-)4
Show us the birth certificate!